Car race games that uses random numbers to move the cars, and calculates the speed of the car
Virtual genie to learn about random nature of flipping a coin.
Drawing tesselations/fractals, using the integration of rich media such as images and music
Create you own adventure stories
Create a scratch club
Get students to create games/activities that can be used to teach content in lower grades, e.g. geography games for teaching elementary students about the states
Get students to create working scratch cards in Scratch, that highlight one idea and add them to a gallery, using tags to aid in searching
Get students to plan/storyboard before creating a scratch project
Get ideas for using Scratch in Maths from prior experience with Logo or from Logo based activities/exercises.
Science-- water cycle, rock formation,
Body Systems-- how food goes through digestive track
Castle Projects (social studies) shared through galleries
4th graders and climate-- create their own animal perfectly adapted to a particular climate
Painted the animal, made backgrounds-- animals changed color depending on temperature
animated thermometer which chnaged based on time of year
International Folk Tales or proverbs--illustrated -- ask the Scratch Kids
Use pen tool to create Fahrenhieit/Centigrade translation tool
Use Pico tool to control lego robot-- see Gheeta's puppoet show with Scratch in the bacjkgournd
Grades-4-6: Graphic Novels-- Collaboration between Art and Computer, stories written in class,drawn in art, "Scratched" in computer
Collaboration among kids changing roles each week to complete a project.
3 students creating an activity and introduce to the class
Can children create a project and collaborate with children from other countries
Great potential for remixing-- each project is added on (also see IEarn.org)
Shouldn't be used for everything-- but is a wonderful communication too using photos and interactivity
Ease of use to upload to great advantage
Kids can work from home-- don't need "Inspiration!"
Use Scratch Community as data points-- ie, gather data from comment sections and report results in Scratch
Ways of children to gather and report on data within the community
Research/Articles-
How Scratch Fosters Student Creativity-
Welcome to Scratchtastic!
SCRATCH
What is Scratch?It is an educational programming language created by Lifelong Kindergartener at MIT in 2007.
Click here to download Scratch.
Uses of Scratch in Education:
Activities and skills:
Examples of how Scratch can be used in Middle School science and math classrooms- http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/middle-school-math-science/2009/04/24/scratch-animation-in-the-classroom/
Presentations
Lawn Mower Scratch Project
Sound Circle Scratch Project
Optical Illusion Scratch Project
Brainstormed uses of Scratch in the Classroom:
Car race games that uses random numbers to move the cars, and calculates the speed of the car
Virtual genie to learn about random nature of flipping a coin.
Drawing tesselations/fractals, using the integration of rich media such as images and music
Create you own adventure stories
Create a scratch club
Get students to create games/activities that can be used to teach content in lower grades, e.g. geography games for teaching elementary students about the states
Get students to create working scratch cards in Scratch, that highlight one idea and add them to a gallery, using tags to aid in searching
Get students to plan/storyboard before creating a scratch project
Get ideas for using Scratch in Maths from prior experience with Logo or from Logo based activities/exercises.
Science-- water cycle, rock formation,
Body Systems-- how food goes through digestive track
Castle Projects (social studies) shared through galleries
4th graders and climate-- create their own animal perfectly adapted to a particular climate
Painted the animal, made backgrounds-- animals changed color depending on temperature
animated thermometer which chnaged based on time of year
International Folk Tales or proverbs--illustrated -- ask the Scratch Kids
Use pen tool to create Fahrenhieit/Centigrade translation tool
Use Pico tool to control lego robot-- see Gheeta's puppoet show with Scratch in the bacjkgournd
Grades-4-6: Graphic Novels-- Collaboration between Art and Computer, stories written in class,drawn in art, "Scratched" in computer
Collaboration among kids changing roles each week to complete a project.
3 students creating an activity and introduce to the class
Can children create a project and collaborate with children from other countries
Great potential for remixing-- each project is added on (also see IEarn.org)
Shouldn't be used for everything-- but is a wonderful communication too using photos and interactivity
Ease of use to upload to great advantage
Kids can work from home-- don't need "Inspiration!"
Use Scratch Community as data points-- ie, gather data from comment sections and report results in Scratch
Ways of children to gather and report on data within the community
Research/Articles-
How Scratch Fosters Student Creativity-
Resources:
Shall We Learn Tutorials Scratch Tutorials
Three Part Course with videos and handouts: http://learnscratch.org/
Support Network- participate in discussions about Scratch, share stories, locate resources http://scratched.media.mit.edu/
23 Scratch Projects with scripts, directions and/or code http://www.nebomusic.net/scratch.html
Lesson Plans with rubrics and self-assessments- http://wiki.classroom20.com/Scratch+Lesson+Plans
Scratch Cards- A quick way to learn new code http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Scratch_Cards
Scratch helpscreens- http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/scratch/help/
Course on Scratch:
http://need2learn.net/course/view.php?id=95
Handout
Example Scripts